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Registration Process?
OK everyone. I've read through all the posts about getting my car registered, which is finally supposed to arrive in about 2 weeks, and am still a bit confused. Does Barry give you a check list? Does he know what paperwork to give us when we pick up the car?
Can people who have gone through the process help fill in this flow sheet, change it around to make it more correct, whatever? This is what I've gleaned so far:
1. Get from Tesla:
a. Bill of Sale with notarization
b. Bill of Lading with date car landed in Hawaii (yellow copy)
c. Certificate of Origin
d. Application for Registration
e. Tesla Configuration Page
f. Temporary registration - Post in rear window to drive until the following is completed
2. Go to a garage: Get a Temporary Safety Inspection Take with you:
a. Your car
b. Your checkbook
3. Download from the Internet at http://www.state.hi.us/tax/a1_b2_1geuse.htm:
a. State of Hawaii Form G26
b. State of Hawaii Form G27
4. Go to HI State Taxation Dept at 830 Punchbowl: Pay sales tax and get Tax Clearance form. Take with you:
a. Form G26 - filled out
b. Form G27 - filled out
c. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
d. Bill of Sale, notarized
e. Tesla Configuration Page
f. Your checkbook
5. Go to DMV, any location: Get your Registration and License Plates. Take with you:
a. Temporary safety inspection
b. Tax Clearance form
c. Bill of Sale, notarized
d. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
e. Certificate of Origin
f. Application for Registration - filled out
g. Your checkbook
6. Put license plates on your car, front and back
7. Go to garage: Get Final Safety Inspection. Take with you:
a. Registration
b. Your car
c. Your checkbook
Please copy, modify, paste as necessary if incorrect. Make into a Wiki post so we all know what to do.
Mahalo!
OK everyone. I've read through all the posts about getting my car registered, which is finally supposed to arrive in about 2 weeks, and am still a bit confused. Does Barry give you a check list? Does he know what paperwork to give us when we pick up the car?
Can people who have gone through the process help fill in this flow sheet, change it around to make it more correct, whatever? This is what I've gleaned so far:
1. Get from Tesla:
a. Bill of Sale with notarization
b. Bill of Lading with date car landed in Hawaii (yellow copy)
c. Certificate of Origin
d. Application for Registration
e. Tesla Configuration Page
f. Temporary registration - Post in rear window to drive until the following is completed
2. Go to a garage: Get a Temporary Safety Inspection Take with you:
a. Your car
b. Your checkbook
3. Download from the Internet at http://www.state.hi.us/tax/a1_b2_1geuse.htm:
a. State of Hawaii Form G26
b. State of Hawaii Form G27
4. Go to HI State Taxation Dept at 830 Punchbowl: Pay sales tax and get Tax Clearance form. Take with you:
a. Form G26 - filled out
b. Form G27 - filled out
c. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
d. Bill of Sale, notarized
e. Tesla Configuration Page
f. Your checkbook
5. Go to DMV, any location: Get your Registration and License Plates. Take with you:
a. Temporary safety inspection
b. Tax Clearance form
c. Bill of Sale, notarized
d. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
e. Certificate of Origin
f. Application for Registration - filled out
g. Your checkbook
6. Put license plates on your car, front and back
7. Go to garage: Get Final Safety Inspection. Take with you:
a. Registration
b. Your car
c. Your checkbook
Please copy, modify, paste as necessary if incorrect. Make into a Wiki post so we all know what to do.
Mahalo!
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Ditto...Was planning on doing the same kind of list when I actually got a delivery date since it seems confusing. When I saw Barry at the service center a few weeks back, he just gave me a quick thirty-second summary of what to do so not sure if he has a checklist or not. Am grateful that we're not the first one's going through this so at least we have some guidance. Thanks Lucky current Tesla Owners for all your input!
When I did my original post on how to get your new car registered, I sent a copy to Tesla. I asked them to pass the information on to future Hawaii customers. If Tesla wants the customer to do the registration, Tesla should give its customers complete written instructions on what is needed and where to go. When I got my car the delivery specialist just told me to go to the DMV verbally. There was no detailed instructions. I had to figure it out by asking a lot of questions. You would think the least Tesla could do is prepare a checklist like ddruz just compiled and hand it to new owners. It would make the experience better and take some of the sting out of registering your own car.
Doh! Got my first curb rash :-(
got a quote from Barry how much to replace one wheel. It was $965 not including labor and taxes. Have an appointment with an alloy wheel repair specialist on the 22nd. Quoted me $165 + tax to repair. Will post results when they're done.
got a quote from Barry how much to replace one wheel. It was $965 not including labor and taxes. Have an appointment with an alloy wheel repair specialist on the 22nd. Quoted me $165 + tax to repair. Will post results when they're done.
Akikiki
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HI Vehicle Registration Process
OK everyone. I did this just this week. So while its fresh, I thought I would add a little to ddruz's checklist.
I took ddruz's excellent checklist and tweaked it a little. Thank him.
People have gone through the process and have helped fill in this flow sheet. I added a little
Barry does not provide a check list? Who knows after he has more help at the SC. Maybe he will do this for new owners.
1. Get from Tesla:
a. Bill of Sale with notarization
b. Bill of Lading with date car landed in Hawaii (yellow copy)
c. Certificate of Origin
d. Application for Registration (This is Tesla's CA version. And they snip the bottom and call it the Temporary Registration)
e. Tesla Configuration page (Shows detailed configuration of car)
f. Temporary registration - Post in rear window to drive until the following is completed
2. Go to a garage: Get a Temporary Safety Inspection (Earlier in this thread covers where a couple of us went and it didn't take long)
Take with you:
a. Your car
b. Your checkbook
c. Bill of Sale to match VIN against car
d. Insurance Card
e. $15 to pay for Safety Inspection
3. Download from the Internet at http://www.state.hi.us/tax/a1_b2_1geuse.htm:
a. State of Hawaii Form G26
b. State of Hawaii Form G27
4. Go to HI State Department of Taxation (DoTax) at 830 Punchbowl:
When you get there, select a "A" customer ticket as soon as you get there. Probably takes about an hour.
You are going there to pay sales tax and get Tax Clearance form for the DMV.
Take with you:
a. State form: Form G26 - filled out
b. State form: Form G27 - filled out
c. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
d. Bill of Sale, notarized and signed by someone at Tesla
e. Certificate of Origin
f. Tesla Configuration page
g. Your checkbook ($3,000+)
5. Go to DMV, any location: Get your Registration and License Plates. Take with you:
a. Temporary safety inspection
b. Receipt for Payment of Tax (no form number) Form G-26 Tax Clearance form from DoTax
c. Bill of Sale, notarized
d. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
e. Certificate of Origin
f. Application for Registration Tesla provided (CA version)
g. Application for Registration - CS-L (MVR) 1 (Rev. 6/09) postcard size, HI version get it at DMV, fill out both sides.
h. Your checkbook ($300+)
6. Put license plates on your car, front and back
7. Go to garage: Get Final Safety Inspection. Take with you:
a. Registration
b. Your car
8. Giddy Up & Go.
OK everyone. I did this just this week. So while its fresh, I thought I would add a little to ddruz's checklist.
I took ddruz's excellent checklist and tweaked it a little. Thank him.
People have gone through the process and have helped fill in this flow sheet. I added a little
Barry does not provide a check list? Who knows after he has more help at the SC. Maybe he will do this for new owners.
1. Get from Tesla:
a. Bill of Sale with notarization
b. Bill of Lading with date car landed in Hawaii (yellow copy)
c. Certificate of Origin
d. Application for Registration (This is Tesla's CA version. And they snip the bottom and call it the Temporary Registration)
e. Tesla Configuration page (Shows detailed configuration of car)
f. Temporary registration - Post in rear window to drive until the following is completed
2. Go to a garage: Get a Temporary Safety Inspection (Earlier in this thread covers where a couple of us went and it didn't take long)
Take with you:
a. Your car
b. Your checkbook
c. Bill of Sale to match VIN against car
d. Insurance Card
e. $15 to pay for Safety Inspection
3. Download from the Internet at http://www.state.hi.us/tax/a1_b2_1geuse.htm:
a. State of Hawaii Form G26
b. State of Hawaii Form G27
4. Go to HI State Department of Taxation (DoTax) at 830 Punchbowl:
When you get there, select a "A" customer ticket as soon as you get there. Probably takes about an hour.
You are going there to pay sales tax and get Tax Clearance form for the DMV.
Take with you:
a. State form: Form G26 - filled out
b. State form: Form G27 - filled out
c. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
d. Bill of Sale, notarized and signed by someone at Tesla
e. Certificate of Origin
f. Tesla Configuration page
g. Your checkbook ($3,000+)
5. Go to DMV, any location: Get your Registration and License Plates. Take with you:
a. Temporary safety inspection
b. Receipt for Payment of Tax (no form number) Form G-26 Tax Clearance form from DoTax
c. Bill of Sale, notarized
d. Bill of Lading showing date landed (yellow)
e. Certificate of Origin
f. Application for Registration Tesla provided (CA version)
g. Application for Registration - CS-L (MVR) 1 (Rev. 6/09) postcard size, HI version get it at DMV, fill out both sides.
h. Your checkbook ($300+)
6. Put license plates on your car, front and back
7. Go to garage: Get Final Safety Inspection. Take with you:
a. Registration
b. Your car
8. Giddy Up & Go.
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Thanks Akikiki and Jkam! Perfect, making comments, corrections, additions. Thanks so much. Since Akikiki just did this I think we can all assume his modified list is about as up to date as can be. Mucho mahalos.
Does anyone know: Is there a garage near the service center where you can just drop in after picking up your car for a quick safety inspection?
Does anyone know: Is there a garage near the service center where you can just drop in after picking up your car for a quick safety inspection?
Akikiki
A'-Lo-HA ! y'all
About 6 miles away in Aiea behind Cutter Ford is Hawaiian Tire and Auto Center. I went there. I was their second. Took about 15 minutes and I was on my way. I'd go back right away. Make an appointment and no wait. 98-025 Hekaha St, Suite 1, 487-6616
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Nice job, ddruz and Akikiki! I don't have anything to add to the list - seems very complete to me. Maybe we should format it up nicely, print out a bunch of them, and take it to Barry to hand out to new owners.
dsmith2189
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I had some motorcycle parts powder coated a few years back. it was not cheap. I had it done at.....give me a sec.... .in Waipahu? Aiea? Nope, nothin'. Yes, there is a place but I can't remember where. I also saw a high temp paint kit for wheels which is much cheaper than powder coating. RimPainter.com uses Dupli-Color in their kit.
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Good idea Spleen. I'll take care of printing up a bunch of these nicely formatted and giving them to Barry when I go pick up my car, tentatively scheduled for Apr 24, or else ask a coworker of mine who swings by that area more often than I do who is expecting his Model S in May to drop some off sooner. I'll also send an email of the chart to Robert Aguirre who seems to be the Delivery Specialist for our area.
Just want to double check one point with car recipients: The temporary safety inspection is not needed at Hawaii Department of Taxation, correct? I did not include it in that section. Trying to confirm that if a person wants to pay their tax before getting their temporary safety inspection it would be possible.
Akikiki
A'-Lo-HA ! y'all
ddruz, I tried to pay attention to what the DoTax guy was looking at. He didn't seem to be interested in the Temp Registration. There are about 3 windows of people that wait on folks with Tax issues. So, its not the same person every time. They guy that waited on me, asked if I was driving the car. I wasn't and so I wasn't because I didn't want to take the chance since I didn't have any plates. He was most interested in the Bill of Sale, Bill of Lading, Cert of Origin and the Tesla Configuration page from our Tesla MVPA document. This is a final document you will sign. I suspect each person will sign this electronically via the Doc-u-Sign service just before you transfer funds. The Configuration page shows your individual vehicle description.
To answer your question, I believe you could go get the Safety Inspection after the DoTax visit. I got my blue Safety Inspection on Saturday because I could, and DoTax wasn't open until the following weekday.
To answer your question, I believe you could go get the Safety Inspection after the DoTax visit. I got my blue Safety Inspection on Saturday because I could, and DoTax wasn't open until the following weekday.
dsmith2189
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when I did my Tax it was the Tesla Final Configuration page that messed me up. I had everything else but that.... They needed that particular page because it lists the "Tesla Personal Delivery" charge.
Akikiki. after looking at your list again the only step that I might mention is after the Sattelite City Hall (DMV) is the Compliance office. It has been discussed previously. Although it seems like they have resolved whatever issue they had with getting my VIN into the system, someone else may end up having to go there. No need to go into detail about it since that may confuse some people. Just an idea.
As far as I know the temporary safety inspection is not necessary for the tax clearance. When I registered my car, I got the tax clearance before I got the temporary safety inspection. I think the temporary safety inspection is only for the DMV.
Akikiki
A'-Lo-HA ! y'all
dsmith, You are absolutely right. Unfortunately, there's no way that everyone of us is going wind up in front of the same State or City people that process the paperwork. I think some of those people are more familiar with what they do and see than others. Some "understand" what they read, like the Configuration page shows Tesla Personal Delivery Charge and they know that's the charge for shipping to Hawaii. And if a manufacturer charges for shipping to an owner, then that means it came in by boat. So the car must have just got here. Another person that looked at the same page and same charge goes duh... So its for these reasons that we need to cover the possibilities of what each of us might go through. And if you don't get stuck or have to explain or produce a document that another one of us does, that means you are lucky, not that the process is wrong.
So considering that someone might have to go to the Vehicle Compliance Office that dsmith mentions, let me share part of my wordy checklist here, that I wrote before I saw ddruz's better version. Okay folks, take this part below with a grain of salt. That's old people talk for it might apply to you and it might not apply to your situation.
I didn't include this detail for two reasons. 1) I run on and on about something and don't know when to stop. 2) While I was waiting for my Cert of Origin, my Bill of Sale and my Bill of Lading to arrive from Tesla, I took my Tesla Configuration page, Tesla MVPA, Insurance Card and Temp Registration to the Kanohe Sat City Hall and asked them what I would need to get my brand new vehicle registered? I asked if I would need to go to the State Vehicle Compliance Office because I had heard that other new owners had needed to do that. The lady helping me looked my paperwork over, looked my VIN up in the system and then went to the backoffice and talked to her boss. When she came back she had a long 8.5" x 14" page of paper with a lot of requirements. She went down that checklist x'ing and circling items and said I would need these things. The end result of all that was the items that ddruz put on his checklist. Her long page of items also had a box for checking the Vehicle Compliance Office, but she told me that her boss said, I would not need a statement from them.
So there's the bottom line and what dsmith was talking about...
Call this Step 0. Before you go to the DoTax and DMV offices. You might be able to skip this step. If your VIN wasn't in the system you have to take the car to the Vehicle compliance office to get them to visually inspect the car VIN. That’s all they do, but it proves the vehicle exists. These days it appears that we can skip this step. I was able to skip it.
The Vehicle Compliance Office, intersection of Kapahulu and Kapiolani under H1. This is where you would take your vehicle verify VIN or to get the reconstruction sticker if you made major/non-standard changes to your vehicle is a hotrod. They inspect your vehicle for road worthiness and issue you the sticker to go along side your normal safety stickers. If you have to go to this office, all they do is look at your car, the VIN and sign a form verifying the car and VIN exists. (Again, it looks like we can skip this step.)
I sincerely hope I have not added to anyone's confusion.
So considering that someone might have to go to the Vehicle Compliance Office that dsmith mentions, let me share part of my wordy checklist here, that I wrote before I saw ddruz's better version. Okay folks, take this part below with a grain of salt. That's old people talk for it might apply to you and it might not apply to your situation.
I didn't include this detail for two reasons. 1) I run on and on about something and don't know when to stop. 2) While I was waiting for my Cert of Origin, my Bill of Sale and my Bill of Lading to arrive from Tesla, I took my Tesla Configuration page, Tesla MVPA, Insurance Card and Temp Registration to the Kanohe Sat City Hall and asked them what I would need to get my brand new vehicle registered? I asked if I would need to go to the State Vehicle Compliance Office because I had heard that other new owners had needed to do that. The lady helping me looked my paperwork over, looked my VIN up in the system and then went to the backoffice and talked to her boss. When she came back she had a long 8.5" x 14" page of paper with a lot of requirements. She went down that checklist x'ing and circling items and said I would need these things. The end result of all that was the items that ddruz put on his checklist. Her long page of items also had a box for checking the Vehicle Compliance Office, but she told me that her boss said, I would not need a statement from them.
So there's the bottom line and what dsmith was talking about...
Call this Step 0. Before you go to the DoTax and DMV offices. You might be able to skip this step. If your VIN wasn't in the system you have to take the car to the Vehicle compliance office to get them to visually inspect the car VIN. That’s all they do, but it proves the vehicle exists. These days it appears that we can skip this step. I was able to skip it.
The Vehicle Compliance Office, intersection of Kapahulu and Kapiolani under H1. This is where you would take your vehicle verify VIN or to get the reconstruction sticker if you made major/non-standard changes to your vehicle is a hotrod. They inspect your vehicle for road worthiness and issue you the sticker to go along side your normal safety stickers. If you have to go to this office, all they do is look at your car, the VIN and sign a form verifying the car and VIN exists. (Again, it looks like we can skip this step.)
I sincerely hope I have not added to anyone's confusion.
+1 to this. We did our state tax payment before doing the temporary safety check as well.
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